Originally Posted by
Handloader109
How are you going to 'cut off the power company now' ? Are the freezers in an out building you can separately power?
It doesn't make sense if they are like mine, in the garage, and in the dog run and in basement. No easy way to separate the power. I've looked at my house for solar and I use 20 kWh when the heat or air is not on in a 24hour day, so roughly 1kW per hour as a baseline usage, up to 100kwh per 24 hours at peak 100F day or 0F day in the summer or winter, which would be 4kWh per hour. A 4kW generator would pretty much run most of my house except for the main heating.
And next issue is that their largest battery is a 5kw battery. If your freezers use just say 500w each, that would MAYBE give you 10 hours.... even double would be 20 hours and the solar panels are NOT a dependable charger. if cloudy, you may be looking at 5 to 25% charge. If really bad, maybe almost zero.
You would be better off just getting several deep charge golf cart batteries.
Message MaryB, she runs her home off solar...